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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12d

You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
cup.org/4nfM2IM

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 12d

Coming 2026!

@mirandayaver.bsky.social's Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States is a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities.

Pre-order now! 🗺️ 🩺📊

https://cup.org/4nfM2IM

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · 29d

Coverage restrictions aren’t free. Such a creative study - with super important implications!

Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 29d

New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!

Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Question Has hospital length of stay increased more for Medicare
Advantage beneficiaries than for traditional Medicare beneficiaries
since the COVID-19 pandemic?Findings In this cohort study involving more than 89 million
hospitalizations from 2017 to the third quarter of 2023, Medicare
Advantage beneficiaries experienced disproportionately greater
increases in extended hospital stays, especially among those
discharged to skilled nursing facilities.Meaning These findings suggest that the Medicare Advantage
plan design and practices may contribute to hospital discharge
delays, with implications for patient outcomes and hospital
capacity as enrollment continues to rise.

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 27

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.

There's still time to sign! And please share.

#EconSky

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

docs.google.com

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Aug 27

I found some of my papers in LibGen

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 27

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 27

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Aug 6

A must-read piece. The part that resonates most for me personally is the importance of being in community - it means more than ever to give myself reminders of who I am working with and working for 🩷

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David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · Aug 3

Dropping my teen off at work shortly. This week they were scheduled for 23 hours, got sent home 2 hours early 2x this week as place was empty

Doesn't matter for them except slightly less thrifting

But this scenario will play hell with people w/ #Medicaid as work requirements are imposed.

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · Aug 1

Medicaid is under attack, despite its importance in helping many of the most vulnerable Americans in some of their hardest times trying to make their lives better

by @mirandayaver.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

The Safety Net Is There for a Reason
It is hardly uncommon in certain political circles to hear that people ought to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn to thrive through their very own Horatio Alger story. But what's too often left out is that the American safety net - namely, Medicaid, CHIP, SSI, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- are the boots. And in this fallout from historic
funding cuts, millions of Americans will now find themselves in even more precarious positions with respect to both their health and economic security.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Jul 24

I wish we could get people to understand that there is enough for everybody on this earth if we do right by each other. Like there is plenty bro. More than plenty. We could all be great together, with full bellies and energized minds.

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Univ. of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation @um-ihpi.bsky.social · Jul 24

Important new review of ways researchers may be able to understand family #caregiver roles - and the need for more data on this “invisible” labor

Sarah Patterson @spattersearch.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Perspective on Making “Invisible” Care Visible Through Time Use Data

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Jul 18

My research was possible because of a career development grant from the NIH. The NIH directly and indirectly (via training grants) supported much of the work in this article.

The NIH supports basic science...and it supports research to make sure all of us can benefit from those discoveries.

Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · Jul 18

Research on insurer coverage rules is in today’s NY Times.

Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know.

Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows

www.nytimes.com

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Emma Sandoe @emmasandoe.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’ve spent my entire life working to improve the lives of people who are living in poverty. The need continues to get greater every day. I hope you join me in this drive because days like today make me want to fight harder for our collective humanity. I 💙 you, Medicaid.

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was a direct beneficiary of Title IX in college sports. Parity in women's sports is so recent that my college coach was coaching at Yale and present for this protest that led to Title IX. I'm sad this thing that gave me opportunity was used to deny the same to others.

www.espn.com/espnw/title-...

Wulf: The 1976 protest that helped define Title IX movement

Fed up with the inequalities they faced, 19 members of Yale's women's crew held a protest. That day helped define a moment.

www.espn.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 30

Trying to identify opioids and other drugs in pharmacy data (claims, PDMP, etc.)? Use my code to quickly build a list of national drug codes (NDCs) using the free public database RxNorm.

I wrote this code to replace the CDC's now-discontinued opioid NDC dataset.

github.com/asacarny/dru...

GitHub - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm: Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm

Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm

github.com

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Jun 29

Please read this @khoureld.bsky.social story about the consequences of USAID cuts.

Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses.

(No paywall)

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

wapo.st

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · Jun 28

So much harm planned by this administration and so little effort to stop it.

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 27

My HCRIS hospital cost report code + data is updated through 2024! I threw the switch and moved everything to R. The new code lets you pull variables from the alphanumeric file, like hospital names and IDs.
NB: I'm using this data now but pls think of it like beta testing.
github.com/asacarny/hos...

GitHub - asacarny/hospital-cost-reports: Code to process the CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS)

Code to process the CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS) - asacarny/hospital-cost-reports

github.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 26

A lot of you have been asking how my 10 million beneficial nematodes are doing. Well the answer is that me and my 10 million microscopic sons are doing great! Thanks so much

Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 16

I know a lot is happening right now, so I want to pass along some happier news: I just purchased 10 million beneficial nematodes.

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Jun 26

Turn it on!!

Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Jun 26

The NYT put together a comprehensive inforgraphic on lost federal funding for research at Harvard

I leanrned a lot about what my colleagues are doing!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article)

More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Jun 26

free livestream at 1.15pm ET on prime video, nike YouTube, nike instagram, or nike TikTok

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Michael Anne Kyle @michaelannica.bsky.social · Jun 26

Well worth 4 mins to watch the sensational Faith Kipyegon run *anything*

www.runnersworld.com/uk/news/a651...

Faith Kipyegon aims to become the first woman to run a sub-4-minute mile and you can watch for free

The Kenyan superstar is shooting for history on Thursday

www.runnersworld.com

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Michal Horný @michalhorny.bsky.social · Jun 8

Does it matter when patients don’t speak the same language as their physician, especially in critical situation such as ICU stays? It does! They tend to be admitted longer.

Come check out my @umassamherst.bsky.social colleague’s (David Chin) poster A-283 at @academyhealth.bsky.social

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David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · Jun 8

#ARM2025

As of June 3 2025 VA withheld approval for this presentation due to the theme of the research

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